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"Le Monde" analysis: How China is 'devouring' Europe
2026-06-16 18:15:11 / BOTA
The French newspaper Le Monde has published an article explaining why Europe is finding it difficult to react to China's current strategy to overproduce high-tech goods.
In recent years, the EU has taken unprecedented measures to combat unfair competition from China. But member states have struggled to develop a more comprehensive strategy.
The French newspaper Le Monde calls this 'an elephant in the room.'
As China threatens every sector of the European economy, from small businesses, weakened by the massive influx of packages sent by platforms like Shein or Temu, to the automotive industry, challenged by the manufacturer BYD, not to mention advanced technologies, and as it seizes market share from European exporters beyond its borders, the European Union is turning its head the other way.
Between the war in Ukraine, deteriorating relations with the United States under Donald Trump, and conflict in the Middle East, the 27 EU member states find themselves consumed by one crisis after another.
Meanwhile, “China is disappearing from sight,” lamented Elvire Fabry of the Jacques Delors Institute, a Paris-based think tank. “Like any animal caught in the headlights of a car, Europe seems so paralyzed by the American threat that it risks forgetting” the Chinese threat, wrote Aurore Lalucq, an MEP in the Socialists and Democrats group and co-president of France’s center-left Place Publique party, in her book Trump contre l’Europe (“Trump Against Europe”).
The “second Chinese blow”, after the impact in the early 2000s, proved devastating. The French high commissioner for strategy and planning, Clément Beaune, even spoke of a “mortal risk for our industry”.
Against a backdrop of a devaluation of the yuan and massive subsidies, Chinese companies gained ground everywhere. In 2025, China sold more cars to Europe than Europe sold to China and recorded a trade surplus of 360 billion euros with the EU.
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